The First Use of the Global Oral Cholera Vaccine Emergency Stockpile: Lessons from South Sudan
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1 World Health Organization, Juba, Republic of South Sudan, 2 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Ministry of Health, Juba, Republic of South Sudan, 4 Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 Medair, Ecublens, Switzerland, 6 International Organization for Migration, Juba, Republic of South Sudan, 7 World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 8 Epicentre, Paris, France
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